CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
49th YEAR, NO. 20. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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Coastal Art Displayed
Mrs. Owen Bail's art creations, using shells and vegetation from the coast, were on display at More
head planetarium last month. Mrs. Hail lives at Atlantic Beach. James E. Wadsworth, Chapel Hill
shell expert, explains part of the exhibit to Miss Mae Worsham of Chapel Hill and Gretna Green, Va.
Board Considers
Road, Drainage
Issues Monday
County commissioner* consider
ed road and drainage problems at
their meeting yesterday morning
at the courthouse, Beaufort.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
board, announced that the Lock
hart road has been staked out and
improvements are scheduled to be
started this spring.
Referred to the highway com
mission were two Harkers Island
drainage problems, one oh the
new highway, and another called
to the board's attention by Wil
liam R. Lewis, an island resident.
Also referred to the state was a
request for paving of the Nassau
road in Smyrna township. A peti
tion presented to the board stated
that there were nine houses on the
road.
Gene Smith, representing prop
erty owners on Leonda drive (be
tween Front street and Lennoxvillc
road), appeared before the board
and asked that the county request
the state to reconsider taking over
Leonda drive. The board agreed
to make the request.
Earl Taylor appeared and asked
that the road from highway 101 to
the airport be added to the county
system. This request was also ap
proved and forwarded to the high
way commission.
A request for improvement to a
400-foot road at Williston was
made. The clerk was asked to
write the petitioners, Cecil R. Wil
lis, Martin Brooks, Elmer D. Wil
lis and others, and inform them
that the road docs not meet the
state's minimum requirements.
The board has asked that the
state consider placing some sort
of sign at Hardesty's corner, warn
ing traffic headed for the Merri
nion road that it will cross in front
of westbound traffic on highway 70.
Odell Merrill, clerk, read a let
ter inviting commissioners to a
. State Highway commission hear
1 ing March 17 at New Bern.
The board requested Alvah Ham
ilton, county attorney, to ask that
the Salter Path land, settled by
squatters, be deeded to the county
by the owners, the Roosevelt heirs.
It la proposed that if this is done,
the county will deed it to the per
sons who have built houses on it.
If those persons do not list their
property for taxes, the county will
See BOARD, Page 5
IN THIS ISSUE
Salute
to
- 4-H Clubs -
Section 2
22 Conventions to Meet
In This Area This Season
Cars Collide
At Intersection
Mrs. Nancy Gaskill Josey, route
1 Beaufort, was in Sea Level hos
pital yesterday recovering from in
juries received in an automobile
accident Saturday about 5 p.m.
The accident occurred at the in
tersection of Cedar and Live Oak
streets, Beaufort.
According to Beaufort police,
Mrs. Josey was driving a 1959
Simca owned by Naomi S. Gaskill
of Sea Level. She was going east
on Cedar and stopped for a stop
sign at Live Oak.
The Simca was struck from the
rear by a 1956 Ford driven by Ar
thur N. Blanhard Jr. cf Springfield,
Mass. The car was owned by El
liott Robbins Jr. of Jersey City,
N. J., a passenger in the Ford.
Blanhard, according to the police
report, was drunk. He told police
he did not sec the Simca stop. Rob
bins suffered a slight head injury.
Blanhard and Robbins are being
held in jail for their appearance in
court today. Blanhard is under
$150 bond and Robbins is under
$100 bond.
Court to Convene
A one-week term of superior
court, for trial of civil cases, will
open at 10 a.m. Monday in the
courthouse, Beaufort.
Presbyterian Women Will
Meet at Wildwood Church
Wildwood Presbyterian church
will be host Wednesday to women
of district 4, Wilmington Presby
tery.
Theme of the conference will be
Understanding the Bible. The meet
ing will continue throughout the
morning and end with lunch at
noon served by women of the Wild
wood church, headed by Mrs. J.
F. Wade.
Registration will begin at 1:30,
followed by music and meditation
in charge of Mrs. 1. Bonner Bell.
The Rev. A. M. Daniel, pastor
of the church, will give the invoca
tion at 10. Mrs. C. F. Hawes will
lead the call to worship. Mrs. Wade
will extend greetings.
The Rev. Joaepk C. Wagner, pas
tor of Havelock Presbyterian
church, will be the speaker. Work
ihopi will follow.
Reports will be given by the fol
lowing: Mrs. C. F. Hawcs, Rose
Hill, spiritual growth; Mrs. R. T.
Sinclair, Wilmington, world mis
sions; Mrs. Edward Wessell, Lc
land, church extension.
Mrs. Glasgow Hicks, Wilming
ton, Christian education; Mrs. W.
P. High, Whitcville, stewardship;
Mra. G. E. Maultsby, Jacksonville,
annuities and relief.
Mrs. Radford Allen, Council, gen
eral fund agencies; Mrs. J. Carrol
Morgan, Morehcad City, intcr
group work; Mrs. Lou Belle Wil
liams, Beaulaville, historian; and
Mrs. Mac F. Jones, Leland, White
Crocs.
Among the speakers will -be Ma.
Adolf Otersoo and Mr. . Daniel.
Luncheon will be served in the Dew
immunity hiiilriirt?
? Twenty-two conventions have
been scheduled thus far this year
for the Morehead City-Atlantic
Beach area, announces Dr. Russell
Outlaw, chairman of the conven
tions committee of the Morehead
City chamber of commerce.
Dr. Outlaw said many of the
meetings have been scheduled due
to efforts of Carteret members of
the organizations. "This is one
of the best ways to bring conven
tions to this area," Dr. Outlaw
said. "If you are a member at a
group that has a state or national
organization, invite them to con
vene here," the chairman urges.
Conventions scheduled thus far
and their dates, follow:
April: North Carolina Nursing
Homes Association, April 5-7;
North Carolina School Food Serv
ice Association, April 21-23; Marine
Biologists, April 28-29; District
JC's, April 30-May 1.
May: Camp Farthest Out. May
6-13; Order of Odd Fellows and Re
beccas, May 15-18; NC Automatic
Merchandising Association, May
19-21; NC Motel Association, May
27-28; Eastern North Carolina Bud
gerigar Society Annual Show, May
27-28.
June: National Association of
Bank Auditors and Controllers,
June 4; NC Hospital Association,
June 6-7; N C Bridge Tournament,
June 10-12; Blades Family Re
union, June 8-9.
NC Bus Association, June 12-14;
NC Automotive Wholesalers. June
18-18; NC Association of County
Commissioners, June 19-22; Na
tionwide Insurance, June 23-25;
NC Association ABC Officers, June
24-26.
July: National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, July 6-8;
Duke Medical Postgraduate
Course, July 17-23; NC Writers
Conference, July 29-31.
August: Hospital Engineer's As
sociation, Aug. 4-6.
All conventions will be at the
Morehead Biltmore, with the ex
ception of the marine biologists
and Blades family reunion, which
are booked for the Atlantic Beach
hotel.
Welders' Torches Cause
Fire on Newport Lot
Newport firemen extinguished a
small fire Saturday afternoon on
a vacant lot belonging to Lonnie
Howard. The lot, site of the pro
posed postoffice, is located next to
Newport Small Engines Co.
The fire started when welders
cutting up old corrugated pipe ig
nited the asphalt tar with which the
pipe was covered. There was do
damagp
Trustee Gives
Dismal Picture
To Creditors
Anybody who is owed any money
by the Morehead City Shipbuilding
Co. has little chance of collecting.
That is the opinion of W. H. Hof
ler, Durham, trustee for Kirchofer
and Arnold Inc. and Morehead
Shipbuilding, firms that have de
clared bankruptcy.
Reports were filed by Mr. Hofler
in US eastern district court last
week.
Of the shipbuilding firm, the re
port said "... the picture is not
too bright for any substantial re
covery on the part of general un
secured creditors."
K&A served as investment bank
er for the shipbuilding firm. It is
estimated that claims against K&A
and its subsidiary, Morehead City
Shipbuilding, may exceed $4 mil
lion.
The trustee's report charges R.
C. Kirchofer, president of the
firms, with breaching the trust of
his customers and giving "false
balance sheets" to directors and
stockholders.
Kirchofer is indebted to K&A for
$233,373 and "can make no restitu
tion," the report said.
Mr. Hofler said the firm's of
ficers "cannot evade liability sim
ply by contending they did not
know what was going on . .
One of the officers is J. W.
Thompson Jr., Morehead City, a
vice-president and director, who
was paid $24,000 annually.
Several Carteret residents had
invested in K&A and are now list
ed among the firm's creditors.
Mr. Hofler said financial distress
and in some cases poverty of its
customers could have been avoid
ed had each of the directors and
officers of K&A exercised good
faith and due diligence in manag
ing the corporate affairs . . . and
had proper audits been made.
White Oak Folk |
Seek Deputy
Citizens from White Oak town
ship yesterday asked county com
missioners to provide a full-tin'*
deputy sheriff in their area.
The commissioners agreed to
consider the request when drawing
up the budget for the sheriff's de
partment for 1960-61.
Dr. L. J. Dupree, spokesman for
the delegation, said that a deputy
sheriff would tend to prevent law
lessness in the White Oak section
and facilitate apprehension of those
who disturb the peace or otherwise
break the law.
Sheriff Hugh Salter commented
that with the cooperation of the
Marine corps, military police arc
on full-time duty in the area and
can be contacted by the sheriff by
radio. On Friday and Saturday
nights, he added, he and his depu
ties make regular trips through the
White Oak section.
Dr. Dupree said that especially
in the summer time a law officer
is needed. He said that upstate
fblks, some of them, behave them
selves at home but come to the
Cedar Point section in White Oak
township for a vacation and "don't
behave like gentlemen and ladies."
Services of a constable, he added,
haven't proved satisfactory.
Appearing with Dr. Dupree were
J. W. Young, John Jones, Elmo
Smith, Milton Truckner, Sgt. Wal
ter Blakeney, Elbert Guthrie, E.
L. Weeks, John R. Jones, Sam Wil
liams, G. P. Williams and John
Guthrie.
No Cause Found
Judge Herbert Phillips, in More
head court yesterday, found no
probable cause for holding Andrew
Guthrie, Morehead City. Guthrie
was charged with carnal knowl
edge, crime against nature and
contributing to delinquency of a
minor. Court officers said the girl
involved denied all actions attribut
ed Guthrie. The warrant had been
sworn out by Guthrie's wife.
Squad Gets Inhaler
Clifford Faglie, representing Woodmen of the World, preaeata a
portable iahaler to Cal Deiern, right, of the More head City rescoe
squad. la the baekgroaad are Jim Hax aad Lenwood Briasoa. The
preaeatatioa vaa made Wedaeaday Bight. CPhoto by Duo Faralei).
County Officials , Educators
Discuss Need of School Funds
To the Victors ?
O. P. Johnson, left, superintendent of schools, Duplin county, presents the district championship
basketball trophy to Butch Hassell, and Pud Hassell, right, co-captains of the Beaufort Seadogs. (See
sports section for more details on tournament at Kenansvilie).
Echoes of the Pas*
Lawson Describes Fruitful
Colony of North Carolina
By WILEY II. TAYLOR JR.
This series of articles is being
compiled in connection with the
celebration of Beaufort's 251st
year. No attempt will be made to
present the articles in chronologic
al order.
This, the first of the series, will
deal with the period just prior to
the settlement of the town, and
will attempt to give the reader an
idea of what coastal North Carolina
was like when our forefathers ar
rived to settle the town.
Some historians would have us
believe that our first settlers suf
fered great danger from the In
! dians, and suffered serious want
for the necessaries of life. Such
was not the case. To the contrary,
the Indians were very friendly and
helpful to the first settlers of east
ern Carolina. Almost one hundred
years lapsed before they became
hostile and had to be practically
exterminated.
In 1700, John Lawson attended
the Pope's Jubilee in Rome. While
there a gentleman who had done a
lot of traveling told him fascinat
ing stories of "both Indies." Law
son's imagination for adventure
was fired by the stories and he re
solved to explore the new world.
Five years later, in 1705, his name
appears as one of the incorporators
of Bath Town.
He remained in the colony for
eight years, during which time he
engaged in surveying and encour
aging colonization. In recognition
of his valuable services the Lords
Proprietors made him Surveyor
General.
Upon his return to England in
1709, Lawson published his famous
history of North Carolina. It is
primarily from that work that the
information for this article is tak
en. Lawson went as far inland as
the present day Salisbury, but most
of his time was spent in the coast
al sections of the state. From his
book we know that some of it was
spent in the immediate vicinity of
the site where Beaufort was ulti
mately located.
Of the people of the colony Law
son said, "The Indians of North
Carolina arc a well shaped clean
made people, of different statures, ?
as the Europeans are, yet ehiefly
inclined to be tall. They are very
straight people, and never bend
forwards or stoop in the shoulders,
unless much overpowered by old
age. Their limbs are exceeding
well shaped. As for their legs and
feet they are generally the hand
somest in the world.
"Their bodies are a little flat,
which is occasioned by being laced
hard down to a board in infancy.
This is all the cradle they have . . .
Their eyes are black or a dark
hazel; their color is a tawny, which
would not be so dark did they not
dawb themselves with bear's oil,
and a color like burnt cork.
"This is begun in infancy and
continued for a long time, which
fills the pores and enables them to
endure the extremity of the wea
ther. They arc never bald on their
heads, which, I believe, proceeds
from their heads being uncovered,
and the greasing their hair, so oft
en as they do, with bear's fat,
which is a great nourisher of the
hair and causes it to grow very
fast."
Maybe the fellow who took the
grease out of hair tonic helped to
keep white gloves and pillows
clcan, but Lawson testifies to the
fact that good old grease elimi
nates the shiny domes of many
modern men.
The Indians, Lawson said, "are
kind and affable to the English,
the Queen being very kind, giving
us the rarities her cabin afforded,
as loblolly made with Indian corn
and peaches. These arc comely
sort of Indians, there being a
strange difference in the propor
tions and beauty of these heath
ens.
"Although their tribes or nations
border upon one another, yet you
may discern as great an alteration
in their features and dispositions,
as you can in their speech, which
generally proves quite different
from each other, though their na
tions be not above ten or twenty
miles in distance.
Of the Congeree women he said,
"The women here being as hand
some as I have met withal, being
several fine fingered brounettes
amongst them., These lasses stick
not upon hand for long, for they
marry when very young, as at
twelve or fourteen years of age."
His description of the women of
the Congeree tribe seems to have
applied to most of the other na
tions as well.
To testify to the fact that the
whites were well provided for and
enjoyed a relatively high 1 4andard
of living he said, "The Chiistian
natives of Carolina are a straight,
clean-limbed people; their children
being seldom or never troubled
with rickets or those other distem
pers that the Europeans are visit
ed withal.
"'Tis next to a miracle to see
one of them deformed in body. The
vicinity of the ?un makes impres
sion on the men who labour out of
doors, or use the water. As for
these women that do not expose
themselves to the weather, they
are often very fair and generally
as well featured as you will see
any where, and have very brisk,
charming eyes which sets them off
to advantage.
See ECHOES OF 1 HE PAST, Pft. 2
Meeting on Aging
To Begin at 2 P.M.
Senior citizens and all others
interested in the well-being of
older people will attend a meet
ing at 2 p.m today in th? N. P.
Eure building, Beaufort, r.
Catherine Dennis. Raleigh, a
member of the Governor's com
mittee on Aging, will be the
speaker.
On display will be literature
relating to gerontology (science
of aging), including material on
what other communities are do
ing for their senior citizens and
what the senior citizens are do
ing for their communities.
Today's meeting has been plan
ned by the county committee on
aging, Miss Grace Wilson, Beau
fort, chairman. All civic, fra
ternal and churqh groups arc
asked to have representatives
present.
FHA Announces
Appointment
John J. Felton, route 2 Beaufort,
has been appointed to membership
on the County Farmers Home Ad
ministration committee to com
plete a three-year term that will
expire on June 30, 1961.
He will succeed John D. Young,
Stella, who resigned a short time
after he had accepted full time off
farm employment recently because
he found, he said, that he could
not devote to the committee time
required for its work.
Other members of the Carteret
cbmmittee arc Y. Z. Simmons,
chairman, Newport, and Milton D.
Truckner of Pellctier.
The supervisor says that these
committees are indispensable to
the operation of the FHA program
in any county. They pass on ap
plications from applicants for all
types of loans and furnish the re
quired certifications with regard
to the size, suitability and value of
farms that are offered as security
for the real estate loans.
They also assist generally in
planning and conducting the work
of FHA.
Subscriptions Due
Yearly subscriptions to Newport
ambulance scrvice arc due and
should be paid to Gordon Cutler,
treasurer of the Newport fire de
partment. Mr. Cutler's address ia
route 2, Box 1-A.
Tide Table
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, March 8
4:36 a.m.
5: 11 p.m.
11:12 a.m.
11:23 p.m.
Wednesday, March 9
5:31 am.
6:02 p.m.
11:58 a.m.
Thursday, March 19
6:18 a.m.
6:44 p.m.
12:12 a.m.
12:42 p.m.
Friday, March 11
6:59 a.m.
12:56 a.m.
7:23 p.m.
1:24 pjn.
? County commissioners, (he coun
ty board of education and More
head City school officials yester
day morning discussed the possi
bility of getting money for schools
faster than it is now being accum
ulated
No decision was made. The dis
cussion mainly clarified the need
for a new Morehead City school
now. Construction of a new school
is not contemplated before 1962 63.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
county board of commissioners, re
marked that he and his board felt
that the county board of education
might be able to start building,
this year, several units of the new
Morehead City school on the site
north of highway 70-A.
Funds used would be the $155,000
that has been set aside this year
by the county for school construc
tion.
In light of that, Mr. Howard said,
H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent
of schools, and his board were at
the meeting yesterday at the court
house to discuss the situation.
Mr. Joslyn presented a mimeo
graphed report giving enrollment
figures and the physical facilities
that should be included in a new
Morehead City school. Total cost
for a 465 pupil school would be
$750,000.
Dr. A. F. Chestnut, chairman of
the Morehead City school board,
said that five architects had been
contacted relative to drawing
plans. It was reported that most
are reluctant to start a school
building on a piecemeal basis, con
tending that process would be more
expensive in the long run.
Dr. Chestnut commented that
nothing fancy is wanted, just ade
quate classrooms.
County commissioners believed
that if a heating plant, cafeteria
and classrooms, numbering about
12, could be put up, overcrowding
at the present Morehead City
school would be relieved.
Mr. Joslyn said that in the fall
more classroom space will b?
needed at Atlantic, Smyrna, Beau*
fort and Queen Street. He said
that efforts are being made to ob?
tain houses at Cherry Point thai
are being declared surplus.
Possibility of trying another bond
issue was discussed but the feel
ing, generally, was that it would
not pass. Mr. Joslyn suggested a
million and a half dollar bond is
sue in 1961 plus continuation of the
present fund - accumulation pro
gram. He said that with the in
crease in valuation of property in
the county, he has been told that
such an issue might be handled
without an increase in taxes.
R. W. Safrit, chairman of the
county board of education, suggest
ed that instead of paying off the
county's present bonds as rapidly
as they are being retired that the
pace be slowed and the money
turned over to schools.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to those mentioned, were Len
wood Lee, principal of Morehead
City school; W. B. Allen, T. B.
Smith, and D. Mason, members of
the county board of education.
Skinner Chalk
Speaks to Lions
Skinner Chalk, Congressional
candidate, was the speaker at the
Morehead City Lions rlub meeting
Thursday night. He revealed his
ideal and beliefs as a candidate.
The cutting of the foreign aid pro
gram and the streamlining of the
nation's defense budget were the
main items discussed by Mr.
Chalk.
The club also heard a report
from president O. J. Morrow on
the recent regional meeting in
New Bern. Mr. Morrow gave high
lights of a talk by Jack Steckley,
past international president of the
Lions club. Attending the meet
ing from Morehead City were Cliff
Edwards. O. J. Morrow, Jim
Crowe, Joe Collins and their wives.
Plan* for a civic organizations
sign-grouping to be sponsored by
the Lions Club were discussed. Un
der the plan, signs of all civic and
fraternal organizations would be
grouped together and erected at
the intersection of Highway TO and
70-A.
A. N. Willis is chairman of the
project. The club asks that any
organization that Mr. Willis has not
already contacted, and who is In
terested in the project, (all him.
The dab's four new members,
George Mizcsko. Jim McLean, Joe
Collins and Vernon Bcasley, were
inducted by tail-twister Owens
Frederick.
Candidate Endorsed
Carteret commissioners, in ses
sion yesterday afternoon at the
courthouse, endorsed the candidacy
of Skinner Chalk, commissioner
who Is running for Congresa from
the third district. Announcement
of the endorsement was made by
A. H. James, chairman of the
county Democratic aommillwi